Knowledge gaps about mixed forests: What do European forest managers want to know and what answers can science provide?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 407, Issue , 2018, Pages 106-115

  Coll, Lluís ^a,b,c   Ameztegui, Aitor ^b,c   Collet, Catherine ^d   Löf, Magnus ^e   Mason, Bill ^f   Pach, Maciej ^g   Verheyen, Kris ^h   Abrudan, Ioan ⁱ   Barbati, Anna ^j   Barreiro, Susana ^k   Bielak, Kamil ^l   Bravo Oviedo, Andrés ^m,n   Ferrari, Barbara ^j   Govedar, Zoran ^o   Kulhavy, Jiri ^p   Lazdina, Dagnija ^q   Metslaid, Marek ^r   Mohren, Frits ^s   Pereira, Mário ^t   Peric, Sanja ^u   Rasztovits, Ervin ^v   Short, Ian ^w   Spathelf, Peter ^x   Sterba, Hubert ^y   Stojanovic, Dejan ^z   Valsta, Lauri ^aa   Zlatanov, Tzvetan ^ab   Ponette, Quentin ^ac   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d LERFoB   (France)

^e SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^f FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE IN KRAKOW   (Poland)

^h GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

ⁱ TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^k INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

^l WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^m INIA   (Spain)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^o UNIVERSITY OF BANJA LUKA   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^p MENDEL UNIVERSITY IN BRNO   (Czech Republic)

^q LATVIAN STATE FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE SILAVA   (Latvia)

^r ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^s WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^t UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^u CROATIAN FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^v UNIVERSITY OF WEST HUNGARY   (Hungary)

^w ASHTOWN FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

^x Fachhochschule Eberswalde   (Germany)

^y UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^z UNIVERSITY OF NOVI SAD   (Serbia)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^ab FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Bulgaria)

^ac UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Forest management and functioning; Forest stability; Participatory process; Research challenges; Review; Species mixtures

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; MANAGERS; MIXTURES;

'CURRENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; EUROPEAN FORESTS; FOREST MANAGEMENT AND FUNCTIONING; FOREST MANAGERS; FOREST STABILITY; MIXED FORESTS; PARTICIPATORY PROCESS; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; SPECIES MIXTURES;

FORESTRY;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MIXED FOREST; MONOCULTURE; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; RESEARCH METHOD; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRADE-OFF;

ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FORESTS; MANAGEMENT; MIXTURES; RESEARCH;

EUROPE;

EID: 85032750605     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2017.10.055     Document Type: Review

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